Re: [proaudio] midi use flag and alsa-libs

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Matt Henley <nwmatt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I got into a discussion about this on #gentoo irc. According to the person I spoke with, the midi flag was removed as now midi is always built into alsa-libs. According to him, the fix for other packages (and should work for pro-audio overlay) is to remove the check for the midi flag on alsa-libs. I modified the ebuilds on my system for ardour 2.999 and one other one and they built without a problem, but I have not tested.

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 3:47 AM, Dominique Michel <dominique.michel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Le Mon, 3 Aug 2009 10:36:17 +0200,

Dominique Michel <dominique.michel@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit :

> Le Mon, 3 Aug 2009 10:12:27 +0200,
> Dominique Michel <dominique.michel@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
>
> > Le Sun, 2 Aug 2009 11:41:13 -0500,
> > Matt Henley <nwmatt@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
> >
> > > I tried to update my system yesterday and now emerge just returns errors.
> > > After a bit of checking it appears that a large number of my packages
> > > (including pro-audio overlay) depend on the midi use option in alsa-libs.
> > > This was removed per the change log because of bug #272659. Do you have
> > > any suggestions on how I should get my system stable as I have a lot if
> > > not most of the packages installed that require alsa-libs be installed
> > > with the midi use flag? Also, is the alsa midi functionality now part of
> > > alsa without the flag or was that functionality removed?
> > >
> > > Thanks for any information.
> > >
> > > Matt
> >
> > Hi Matt,
> >
> > Thanks for reporting. Try to update the overlay. I masked the just unmasked
> > ALSA packages.
> >
>
> Fan, it doesn't work! Gentoo removed the alsa-*-1.0.20. To downgrade to
> 1.0.19 will arm more.

It will do nothing for this issue because they dropped the midi flag from all
their alsa versions.

> I unmasked them again.
>
> I have no solution for now beside to report all the broken packages to their
> respective overlays.
>
>
> > According to the old gentoo packages.mask, it is an optional hack.. I don't
> > know what it mean, but the midi packages in gentoo are working in any cases.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Dominique
> >
>
>

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